I'm curious to see the logistics of a company trying to move in and retrofit a city for something like fiber.  There's a reason there's really 2 players, cox and $mini-bell, they built before things were covered in concrete.  I've worked for cox and seen that cities can take months to return permits (mesa/tempe was the worst) for any construction, which will be required amass to deliver anything like that.

New areas will always be prioritized, but for most of phoenix that is land-locked and built already, it doesn't mean much for expediency to get their google fiber in-town to incumbent areas with tons of dead-weight bureaucrats to sit on the permit orders waiting for a pension to kick in. 

More competition is better, but I don't think cox is immediately worried with shielded coax delivering gigabit speeds soon (plus they are looking to replace coax with fiber too), and centurylink is in the same boat as google needing to replace dated 2-wire infrastructure with fiber as DSL is hitting its limits for year. 

If they're smart, they'll work off of each other and just get us composite dwdm to our houses at some point.  PON networks seem a bit janky still after having built real transport networks.

-mb


On 05/13/2014 10:48 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: